My takeaway is to make sure I know what time zone my calendar is showing me, meara. That was my mistake in setting the call up.

The advantages to working from home far outweigh the disadvantages. The one downside is the temptation to have the news playing in the background. Like watching a train wreck. Okay, turning it off before my BP explodes.

Sometimes I need to use my Win10 desktop (which can fit in a pocket) at home and I moved from using a hardware switch for my keyboard and mouse to a software solution and it is awesome. It's like I have one desktop (half-Linux/half-Windows) that spans two computers.

The news lately is something. I'd say Trump is going off the rails, but he hasn't been in sight of the rails for a long time now.

My takeaway is to make sure I know what time zone my calendar is showing me, meara.

Ah yes, that is also a key issue I have dealt with in the past!

Randomly: So we're trying to find some sandwich platters we can use to feed people at our soccer tournament. I went to the local grocery store in person yesterday, because their online form only gave options for type of meat and type of cheese, and I wanted to know if they had vegetarian or vegan options. And the guy was like "Sure, we can do that"...but when I asked for detail, he was like "yeah, lettuce, tomato, and onion". Um. Dude. That is not a vegetarian sandwich, that's just condiments. I can't feed that to someone!

Ha, yeah, I've run into that kind of "vegetarian sandwich". My poor mom famously was served bread and pickles for lunch at one deli when we were traveling. She doesn't even like pickles, so that was not good at all.

And then I think of the people I know who are vegan AND gluten-free! (More flexible on the vegan front in emergencies, but still.)

Dude. That is not a vegetarian sandwich, that's just condiments. I can't feed that to someone!

Tim will cheerfully make a sandwich with just the veggie fixings, although it's not something he'd want to eat every day for lunch. But he's notoriously easy-going. (Which balances out my total lack of easy-goingness. I am so difficult that sometimes I wonder why he doesn't launch me into the sun [because he surely has a catapult in the attic]. That man has infinite patience for my shit.)

Yeah, we were joking that for the vegan/gluten free people we'd just have a table with a loaf of gluten-free bread, jam, and peanut butter but then someone might be allergic to peanuts...:D Mostly it's not something we promise to anyone when they sign up, but we do want to make an EFFORT to have something available for folks and I don't consider "condiment sandwich" an effort. Plus, this is lesbians. I feel like there's a LOT of veg/vegan/GF among my people. Safeway at least has a "Mediterranean" platter with some hummus/red pepper wraps, that they were like "Sure we could sub those in on a regular sandwich platter". QFC had no options.

(the day before, we're having pizza, but expecting to get a couple vegan/gf ones. We hope. Because the pizza place that agreed to donate 15 pizzas announced yesterday they're going out of business and that's their last day. We called and they said they'd still give us pizza, but I'm still worried about chaos effects)

I work for a good, if slow on the uptake, company. Given the booming tech industry around here and the difficulty we've been having finding people to hire, it must have occurred to someone that pizza parties and team activities are not the key to getting and keeping good employees. I got a $4K a year adjustment to my pay, which goes a lot further to reassure me of my standing around here than my supervisor ernestly saying he appreciates me. That'll cover the rent increase quite nicely, and for a couple of years in the future.